Microsoft Events presents insights on how businesses benefit from Arm-based Azure Cobalt 100 VMs, featuring customer stories and technical highlights for developers and IT pros.

Cloud Innovation and Efficiency with Arm-Based Azure Cobalt 100 VMs

Session from Microsoft Ignite 2025 | Speaker: Sameer Nori

Overview

Learn how enterprises unlock increased performance, efficiency, and scalability using Azure Cobalt 100 Arm-based virtual machines (VMs). The session highlights customer adoption examples, technical deep dives, and guidance for migrating and modernizing workloads on Arm-powered Azure infrastructure.

Why Developers Choose Arm

• Performance, maturity, and efficiency are cited as top reasons for adopting Arm-based VMs on Azure.

Software Collaboration

• Integration with GitHub runners for CI/CD
• Windows performance optimizations for development and testing on Arm
• Methods to optimize software for Arm platforms

Workload Performance

Detailed benchmarks and technical results for workloads including:

• NGINX
• Redis
• Postgres
• SPECjbb

Performance gains are highlighted for typical cloud applications deployed on Arm infrastructure.

Partner Highlights

• One Trust deployment and use cases with Cobalt 100 VMs in Azure
• Insights on adoption, outcomes, and optimization strategies

AI and Data Workload Integration

• Databricks integrates Cobalt 100 VMs for scalable AI and data workloads
• Demonstrates how Arm-powered infrastructure accelerates machine learning and analytics tasks

Migration and Modernization Resources

• Over 150 interactive learning paths and tutorials provided for migrating, deploying, and optimizing workloads on Arm-based Azure VMs
• Guidance, documentation links, and tutorials to help organizations modernize their infrastructure
  • Arm cloud migration
  • Cobalt overview on Azure
  • Arm in cloud computing
  • Microsoft Ignite

Future Outlook

• AI integration using new MCP server platforms
• Next steps for adopting Arm in Microsoft cloud environments

For further learning and on-demand sessions, visit Microsoft Ignite.

Speaker

• Sameer Nori

Key Topics

• Azure cloud performance
• Arm-based VM deployment
• Software optimization
• Customer and partner success stories
• AI workload acceleration
• Modernization and migration strategies